Beginning in 2011, Hakim co-hosted Dateline with fellow video journalist Mark Davis, the two taking it in turns to present the programme in approximately six-week blocks, while the other was away on assignment.[5]

It was announced in December 2012[6] that Hakim was to join the international channel BBC World News and be reporting on the BBC News Channel. She would present a new current affairs programme, report for the channel and present other news programmes.[7] She moved from Australia to London, and her first programme, for the Our World series, was broadcast in March 2013, and her first studio presentation shift was 29 March 2013 presenting BBC World News. On 7 October 2013 she interviewed Hamid Karzai, the President of Afghanistan, for BBC Newsnight.[8]

Since March 2014, she has made several appearances as the presenter on Impact, ultimately becoming the programme's main presenter later that year.[9]